It's a slightly better than average FPS when the Xbox was 1st released it was the only game worth a damn so everyone who had one played it which warranted a sequal. Which once again was the only game worth a damn on the early Xbox live so everyone wanting some console online play once again got involved. Since then the series has shown how average it really is.

All its ever been good for is some solid muliplayer action, I could get it for some online but I know I'll just be endlessly killed by people who have been playing multiplayer since they hooked up their original xbox at their mates place for LAN multiplayer.

Whoa there little doggy the first Halo was more than medicor, it was fraking great. It had 2-player co-op for the entire single player, great A.I., vehicles you can drive/fly around in, wide open levels, big battles. For the time, there weren't many games that had even a couple of those things let alone all of them. The 2nd game, introduced it's great multi-player (too bad the single player sucked). Halo 3, added 4-palyer co-op, forge, theater mode. ODST sucked, well it was alright, sorta like how Bioshock 2 was alright.

I never quite understood the hype and fanboyism about Halo, its a mediocre FPS. Please explain ;(

I'm wondering if you even played any of the games for a extended period of time? Maybe you have, it's just you sound like a geriatric hater. It's one thing if you said you don't care for the series, ok fine not everyone is going to like the popular games. But, to dismiss everyone who plays the game as a fanboy makes you sound like a sad little troll.

All its ever been good for is some solid muliplayer action, I could get it for some online but I know I'll just be endlessly killed by people who have been playing multiplayer since they hooked up their original xbox at their mates place for LAN multiplayer.

I think that's flawed logic. Why even bother with multi-player for any game, there is always going to be people better then you. Starcraft, Team Fortress, Call of Duty, Left 4 Dead. Any game you're going to get destroyed at early on, you play and get better, then you become the destroyer.

The Halo series has always had very good gameplay. Sure, nowadays it's fairly generic, but that's only because som many games draw from it as inspiration.

The one big complaint I have with it is the story. It's a shame because having read the books, the extended universe is very interesting and indepth. It's just master chef who is boring and 1-dimensional.